US HDTV Xbox 360 Gets the Shaft

Listen up, you HD-mongering American Xbox 360 owners: it may be time to invest in a little Japanese-import HDTV for your Xbox 360. Here is the deal: in the US, HDTV A/V outputs support 480p, 720p and 1080i, correct? Well Japanese HDTV components run on all of these and one more, that is 750p. That’s why the HD component cable for the Japanese 360 looks a little different and is called a D-Terminal cable. What does this mean for you? Well, it means Japanese gamers can play 360 games at 720p at a hot 60fps and you can’t. Feeling a little screwed? Yeah, we all are. Thanks, Microsoft.

It’s not as bad as you think, so read the posting over at Gizmodo.